Surviving the Cloudflare Outage: How a Thoughtfully Engineered Architecture Kept a SaaS Platform Online With Zero Downtime
Last week, a major Cloudflare outage swept across the internet, bringing down countless websites, SaaS platforms and online tools. In the middle of this, a SaaS platform whose architecture I designed as a consultant experienced zero downtime. This case study explains how — and why — deliberate architectural choices matter far more than throwing money at infrastructure.